On 9/14/07 8:07 AM, Carolyn Hastings wrote:
Now, maybe someone will tell us how to make the photo
file small enough to be accepted for the map? Those
files are really small, and I haven't been able to edit
anything into a file that small.
?? I uploaded the huge picture I use as a splash page,
which is the only portrait of myself I have on my hard disk,
and the Buddy Map made it into a thumbnail without being
asked -- I later clicked on "view image" and verified that
it was a small picture and not a huge one being shown in a
small frame.
[digression]
Which is, by the way, a useful trick any time you are
looking at a lace picture. A lot of people don't know any
better than to use the "size" attributes to shrink a picture
on a Web site, so clicking "view image" sometimes gets you
more detail.
(Using the size attributes to shrink a picture is frowned
upon because the viewer has to download immense amounts of
detail that he doesn't get to see. Once broadband
connections penetrate into the remotest bush, this may be
seen as a feature.)
(On one of my pages, I used size attributes to enlarge an
image, and that is quite all right as long as you don't mind
the image being pixelated.)
[/digression]
It is, of course, much better to shrink the picture
yourself. For example, had I sneakernetted my photo to
Dave's computer and loaded it into Gimp, I could have
cropped it down to the face instead of spending most of my
detail on Bubba -- who is cute, but not relevant to the map.
(Bubba and his sister were raising money for a zoo by
posing for pictures at $10/sitting.)
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